A Russian Harvest Update from the HGCA

Posted by on Aug 30, 2012 in AGM News | 0 comments The HGCA yesterday published a rather interesting update on this year’s Russian Harvest…. They comment that: “Russian grain yields have fallen by 27% year-on-year to 1.92t/hectare, according to the Russian Agriculture Ministry. The Ministry still expects a grain harvest of 75Mt, a 20% reduction on last season. The exportable surplus is expected to be 12Mt. As of 28 August,...
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TWO Unique Spring Barley Opportunities for Harvest 2013

Posted by on Aug 23, 2012 in AGM News | 0 comments   Spring Barley Harvest is now well under way and we are now looking for growers for two unique contracts for Harvest 2013 Take advantage of the currently buoyant wheat market to lock into premiums for next year’s barley CONCERTO SPRING BARLEY for Distilling Malt Harvest Movement, MAGB Moisture Terms. Premium over the average of November 13 LIFFE WHEAT at close of business on or nearest 15th...
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Winter barley trials and harvest results 2012

Posted by on Aug 16, 2012 in AGM News | 0 comments The first of this year’s winter barley HGCA recommended list trials have been harvested – and the results are now available to view online. To view the results and for more information on this year’s trials – please follow the link...
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Ensus bioethanol plant is to reopen in a matter of weeks

Posted by on Aug 14, 2012 in AGM News | 0 comments Europe’s largest wheat-based bioethanol plant is to restart production later this month after a 15-month shutdown, providing what farmers weekly deem to be “a timely boost to the domestic grain market”. Ensus has the capacity to refine 1.1M/T of locally-grown feed wheat into more than 400/M (million) litres of bioethanol, 350,000/T of high protein animal feed and 300,000T of carbon dioxide...
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USDA WASDE – August 2012

Posted by on Aug 14, 2012 in AGM News | 0 comments For the last two, perhaps even three weeks the grain markets have been awaiting some sort of “formal clarity” to both clear up the actual severity of the damage done to the American maize corn crop and to explain the implications this will have on global supply and demand. Friday’s USDA WASDE (the latest monthly supply and demand report from the US department of Agriculture) was set to...
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